There is nothing like attending a class, taking a trip to another country, or buying professional software to help you learn a language. But sometimes you have to settle for what is cheap or free.
Here are some free resources I’ve been using lately. (more…)
What follows is a portion of the “The Ballad of the White Horse,” a poem by G. K. Chesterton. I’ve never read the whole poem, and am only familiar with this one part and a few other pieces. But I like it.
I first became acquainted with this work in the book Against the Night: Living in the New Dark Ages, by Charles Colson, in which the excerpt below is fully printed. That book had a profound impact on my teenage views of culture and society. I’ve read this poem so many times that I have it nearly memorized.
You can believe a man is committed to a cause when he is willing to lay down his life — literally, willing to die — for the cause’s sake. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian who was martyred during World War II in Germany for the sake of Christianity and the German people. His story is movingly told in the video Hanged on a Twisted Cross. (There is also a dramatized version, Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace, which I have not seen yet.)
